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Peter O. Elliott
PETER ELLIOTT, The Minneapolis Maniac Who Made a Scene at the White House Yesterday. Photo by Skage Bros., Minneapolis. (Minneapolis Journal, 6 Oct. 1903)
Peter Olson Elliott (c. 1869 - May 22, 1904) was a machinist and inventor of Scandinavian origins who came to notoriety after being arrested at the White House in October 1903 while seeking a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt, purportedly to assassinate him. The national press portrayed Elliott as having been driven insane in his attempts to develop a perpetual motion device, a common claim in the era, while Minnesota newspapers described him as a known paranoid eccentric and socialist agitator with delusions of grandeur who had routinely claimed contact with Roosevelt. Just over a month later, in November 1903, Elliott was reported as having been discharged from custody after being evaluated by authorities at the St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C., though seems to have been subsequently held at the St. Peter Asylum for the Insane in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was said to have escaped from after a short stay; he resurfaced again at Minneapolis in late May 1904, being arrested and held briefly by local authorities, only to hang himself from a railroad bridge a day later.
After Elliott's death, local Minnesota newspapers published reports on notes and letters found among his personal effects, including a long letter seemingly in Swedish that was claimed to be untranslatable, as well as records of certain curious inventions, including a musical device proposed for the Exposition Universelle (Paris Exposition) of 1900, described as "a mammoth steam calliope[...] of monstrous size, so gigantic that six or eight big high-pressure boilers would be required to furnish the steam," which would "have a range of about three octaves, or twenty-eight notes to be exact, with every whistle powerful enough to be heard all over Paris."[MJ]
Though some reports following his arrest in 1903 indicated Elliott had been working on perpetual motion, any notes he may have had regarding such efforts were not publicised subsequent to his death.
SPG (6 Oct. 1903), "MINNEAPOLIS CRANK SEEKS PRESIDENT - He Lands in Insane Asylum — Threatened Roosevelt's Life Months Ago.", St. Paul Globe (St. Paul, Minn.): 1, 6, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85102396/ — in which, it is alleged, Elliott showed signs of paranoia, fearing poisoning by a Swede conspiracy, and obsessive interest in Roosevelt, claiming the President had promised him a government posting (and even to find him a wife), as well as a note that Nels Lennes, a photographer, had taken photos of Elliott's perpetual motion models.
MJ (6 Oct. 1903), "ELLIOTT IS IN AN ASYLUM, Minneapolitan Who Tied to Call on Roosevelt Is Declared to Be Insane. He Made No Resistance When Taken to the Asylum — Friends are Silent.", Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Minn.): 2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1903-10-06/ed-1/seq-2/
ST (6 Oct 1903), "CRAZY MAN ATTEMPTS TO ENTER WHITE HOUSE, SEEKS THE PRESIDENT - ARMED STRANGE CLAIMING TO BE PETER ELLIOTT OF MINNEAPOLIS - FIGHTS FOR LIBERTY - OVERPOWERED AFTER STRUGGLE IN WHICH HE TRIES TO SHOOT OFFICER. VISIT NOT UNEXPECTED, PRISONER HAD SENT HIS PHOTOGRAPH AND A LETTER SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE. IS WELL KNOWN LOCAL CHARACTER.", Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.): 1, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/180792775/
RJ (6 Oct. 1903), "MANIAC SETS WHITE HOUSE IN A FURORE - Peter Elliott, Who Insisted Upon Seeing the President, Overpowered by Officers. During Fierce Struggle He Pulled Revolver -- Special Detectives Awaiting His Coming Made Arrest, Furious Fight Following.", Racine Journal (Racine, Wis.): 1, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/343596016/
"EXAGGERATED RUMORS, Stories Set Afloat Regarding White House Incident. ELLIOTT'S RECORD, INSANE MAN KNOWN TO POLICE IN MINNEAPOLIS. Transferred to St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Efforts Made to Secure Additional Information.", Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): 7, 6 Oct. 1903, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1903-10-06/ed-1/seq-7
SPG (8 Oct. 1903), "Editorial Comment", St. Paul Globe (St. Paul, Minn.): 4, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85102420/, "Elliott, the Minneapolis crank who was arrested at the Whitehouse, is said to have gone insane over attempts to invent a perpetual motion machine. He could have achieved his desire and saved his reason by getting pointers from the Roosevelt press bureau."
TL (15 Oct. 1903), "WASHINGTON LETTER", Mound City Republic (Mound City, Kan.): 1, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/422462136/, "The police later learned that the man was a Dane named Peter Elliott and that he had just come to Washington from Minneapolis, where he spent his time trying to invent 'a perpetual motion machine.'"
SFC (1 Dec. 1903), "GUARDS AT WHITE HOUSE FEAR RETURN OF A DANGEROUS CRANK - Elliott, Who Was Arrested After a Hard Struggle While Trying to See the President, Escapes From St. Paul Asylum and Starts for Washington", San Francisco Call (San Francisco, Cal.): 7, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/466122927/
ST (21 May 1904), "PETER ELLIOTT TALKS AND LANDS IN JAIL, MAN WHO BELIEVES UNCLE SAM IS SLOW PAY AND WHO USED TO THREATEN THE PRESIDENT IN LETTERS LANDS IN POLICE STATION.", Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.): 9, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/181263853/
MJ (21 May 1904), "ELLIOTT DOESN'T HAVE TO GO BACK, Escaped Asylum Inmate, Who Wanted to See Roosevelt, Was 'Discharged'", Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Minn.): 7, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/76284017
MJ (23 May 1904), "ELLIOTT'S BODY FOUND HANGING - FANATIC WHO GAINED NATIONAL NOTORIETY COMMITS SUICIDE. Papers on His Person Indicate that He Was the Victim of an Insane Self-appreciation — His Rebuff at the White House Had Preyed Upon His Mind.", Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Minn.): 7, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1904-05-23/ed-1/seq-7
ST (23 May 1904), "ELLIOTT DIES BY HANGING, Noted Lunatic Is Found Suspended From Girder of Short Line Bridge. BREAKS NECK IN FALL, Writes Long Letter, Which Swedes Are Unable to Translate Into English", Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.): 1-2, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/181266249/
MJ (25 May 1904), "GREAT HORROR FOR PARIS EXPO - PETER O. ELLIOTT DEVISED A MONSTER CALLIOPE. Its Notes Were to Be Loud Enough to Be Heard All Over the City — Gigantic Battery of Boilers Was to Furnish the Steam — Parisians Did Not Take to Plan.", Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Minn.): 6, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/76284189
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Q: The type or namespace name 'Worker' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) in asp.net core 2.2? I have asp.net core 2.2 project in which i have created a service named Worker.cs which looks like this

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Amazon.SQS;
using Amazon.SQS.Model;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace sqs_processor
{
    public class Worker : BackgroundService
    {
        private readonly ILogger<Worker> _logger;
        private readonly IAmazonSQS _sqs;

        private readonly string _exampleQueueUrl = "https://sqs.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/637294848563/example-queue";
        private readonly string _processedMessageQueueUrl = "https://sqs.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/637294848563/processed-messages";

        public Worker(ILogger<Worker> logger, IAmazonSQS sqs)
        {
            _logger = logger;
            _sqs = sqs;
        }

        protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
        {
            while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
            {
                try
                {
                    var request = new ReceiveMessageRequest
                    {
                        QueueUrl = _exampleQueueUrl,
                        MaxNumberOfMessages = 10,

                        WaitTimeSeconds = 5
                    };

                    var result = await _sqs.ReceiveMessageAsync(request);
                    if (result.Messages.Any())
                    {
                        foreach (var message in result.Messages)
                        {
                            // Some Processing code would live here
                            _logger.LogInformation("Processing Message: {message} | {time}", message.Body, DateTimeOffset.Now);

                            var processedMessage = new ProcessedMessage(message.Body);

                            var sendRequest = new SendMessageRequest(_processedMessageQueueUrl, JsonConvert.SerializeObject(processedMessage));

                            var sendResult = await _sqs.SendMessageAsync(sendRequest, stoppingToken);
                            if (sendResult.HttpStatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK)
                            {
                                var deleteResult = await _sqs.DeleteMessageAsync(_exampleQueueUrl, message.ReceiptHandle);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    _logger.LogError(e.InnerException.ToString());
                }

                _logger.LogInformation("Worker running at: {time}", DateTimeOffset.Now);
            }
        }
    }

    public class ProcessedMessage
    {
        public ProcessedMessage(string message, bool hasErrors = false)
        {
            TimeStamp = DateTime.UtcNow;

            Message = message;
            HasErrors = hasErrors;
        }

        public DateTime TimeStamp { get; set; }
        public string Message { get; set; }
        public bool HasErrors { get; set; }
    }
}

Now when i am adding this service in my Startup.cs like this
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_2);
        services.AddCors(c =>
        {
            c.AddPolicy("AllowOrigin", options =>
            {
                options.AllowAnyOrigin();
            });
        });

         // AWS Configuration
                var awsoptions = Configuration.GetAWSOptions();
                services.AddDefaultAWSOptions(awsoptions);
                services.AddAWSService<IAmazonSQS>();

                // Worker Service
                services.AddHostedService<Worker>();
    }

So on registering Worker.cs in my Startup.cs it throws an error like this
Startup.cs(46,47): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Worker' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) [D:\OfficeProjects\beelinksanalytics\analytics.csproj]

So what i am doing wrong in this? I just simple want to add that Worker.cs in my Startup.cs. But curreny it is throwing an error.

A: You need to add the namespace of your Worker class on the usings of your startup class.
in your case it should be like  this:
using sqs_processor;

When you get this kind of error, you can make visual studio resolve it put your cursor on the class name and pressing Ctrl + . then Visual Studio will give you some options to solve it.

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Q: Routing issue with angular and bootstrap I am trying to route my APP in angular and bootstrap, but nothing shows in the view, my code is:
app.js
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'ngRoute',
'mainControl'
]);

myApp.config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.
when('/main', {
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<meta name="author" content="">

<title>Angular JS and Bootstrap</title>
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<body ng-app="myApp">

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</html>

Any help would be appreciated?? I am fairly new to angular JS, am i declaring the ng-app in the wrong place?. when I look in the url, the url is displayed correctly i.e index.html#/main, but nothing is displayed...

A: It looks like you have a typo?
when('/main', {
    templateUrl: 'partials/main.html', // capitalization on templateurl
    controller: 'MainControl'
}).

EDIT: Confirmed that it works locally with your code.


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How to make a hit TV show
Posted on October 1, 2018 by Risto
Long gone are the days when television was simply a box in the heart of the living room. Instead, television is everywhere – in your living room, on your tablet, and – yes – even on that phone of yours, thanks to streaming and to new operators, such as Netflix and Amazon, who have entered the production game as well.
Who among us isn't working her way through one or several TV shows right now? And when we're not watching the shows, we're talking about them. We want more shows, new shows, new things to devour, love and get hooked on.
Naturally, Hollywood and the new players are after hits. Shows and movies that get everybody's attention. The must-sees. The challenge for the producers is that creating a hit is easier said than done. Here are ten things to consider.
1. APPEAL TO FEAR, GREED AND OTHER EMOTIONS
"A big studio marketing executive once told me that it all comes down to two things – fear and greed," says Derek Thompson, author of Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction. "Films should either make the audience envious and incited to want or they should scare and titillate them and make them anxious."
Either way, it should stick in your brain – whether you like the feeling or not.
"Another way to generalize an element of excellent storytelling is to say that great stories allow for a combination of familiarity and surprise – familiar characters in a surprising setting, or surprising characters in a familiar setting. Novelty demands attention, but familiarity and comfort sustain it," he adds.
Fear and greed aren't the only emotions we are drawn to, of course.
"I don't think there is a formula. You just have to create something that appeals to peoples' emotions and/or that is locally relevant. Generally speaking, there are probably as many differences across hits as there are similarities," says Yenia Zaba, Netflix Manager, Media Relations in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Recent Netflix hits, such as Stranger Things, Queer Eye and Narcos, don't seem to have a common denominator.
"People are different," she says.
2. GATHER DATA ON YOUR AUDIENCE…
There is so much data about consumers out there that one would be excused for thinking that it's easy to create a show that appeals to a mainstream audience. But humans are fickle and hard to pin down. And if you need evidence of data not always being able to predict the success of a movie, remember Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a film that was, according to The New York Times, a product of a data crunching software.
Consumer data, however, is still valuable. When given the freedom of choice, people will create new habits.
"We know, for example, that people consume most comedy on Monday mornings. Maybe it's at the start of the week we feel we need laughter in our lives a little more than usual," says Zaba.
3. … BUT TRUST YOUR GUT
When producers like Amazon and Netflix have millions of subscribers paying a monthly fee, they have the advantage of being able to take chances. They can afford to go for that niche audience.
"We produce things that have mass appeal, such as Bright, a Will Smith-driven action movie. But we can also make bets, such as Narcos," Zaba says of one of Netflix's biggest hits of 2017.
Another hit, Stranger Things, was pitched to several other distributors that all turned it down because they didn't believe in the story. Once it eventually landed on Netflix, though, it became a huge hit. Data is important, but so is taste.
"It always comes down to a human who greenlights a project," Zaba says.
4. FAMILIAR STORIES HELP
Humans are drawn to familiarity, which is why we look forward to sequels.
"Audiences like to tell themselves that they most crave original storytelling. What they really crave, though, is a familiar story and characters updated for new adventures – familiar surprises. Hollywood keeps making sequels because audiences keep buying tickets to sequels at a rate far higher than they buy tickets to [new] original films," says Thompson.
But we also do like to be pleasantly surprised, which is why typically, the sequels aren't as successful as the ones they follow.
5. FAMILIAR NAMES? MAYBE NOT
Some people will always be drawn to the stars and choose the new Tom Cruise movie over anything else. But Thompson says things are changing.
"There was a period in the 1990s and early 2000s when studios were obsessed with paying larger and larger salaries to big stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise. But today, it's all about IP – intellectual property, like the Marvel Universe and Star Wars, which can be merchandized to produce hit film after hit film," he says.
According to Zaba, Netflix has had similar experiences.
"Having Will Smith to do Bright with us was a recipe for success because he's good at what he does. But the Stranger Things cast was unknown. Now they're being courted by the biggest studios. The same goes for Dark, a German show, where a lot of the talent was found at local theaters," she says.
6. TRUST THE STORY AND THE STORYTELLERS
The quality of the storytelling is key. For that, you have to completely trust the creators and give them creative freedom.
"We can't simply order a show that will appeal to 'a female audience, aged 35-55, that watches it at 8pm on Thursday nights.' We give the filmmakers the freedom of creativity which then sometimes yields unexpected results," Zaba says.
Since Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services already have the customers, they can deliver an entire season of a TV show at once and let the audience watch the show or film at their own pace.
Some shows (and some viewers) need more time. According to Netflix' data, audiences were addicted to Narcos – no pun intended – by episode three, whereas it took Gilmore Girls seven episodes to find its fans. Once they were hooked, though, they became fiercely loyal.
8. RECOGNIZE THE TRENDS
A few years ago, the whole world seemed to be running from vampires, and then from zombies. Today, zombies have taken a back seat.
"The popular shows now are futuristic, but unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, not with spaceships. Instead, its dystopias set 100 years from now that are creating discussion and interest," says Zaba.
Even shows from the 80s get a new spin when re-booted. Star Trek is no longer only a show about boldly going where no man has gone before. As a prequel to the original show, Star Trek: Discovery has taken a more philosophical turn.
"The world is changing so rapidly that we turn to the movies and TV shows to ask ourselves what is happening," Zaba says.
9. TEAR DOWN THE WALLS
The movie audience is truly global now, which is why even Hollywood increasingly sets
its films in non-American cities, often in China (so that a billion people can identify with the movie). Pixar, meanwhile, set the Cars sequel in Paris, London and Tokyo. Non-American actors are also getting more opportunities than in the past.
"Narcos was produced by French Gaumont, the oldest production company in the world. About 70 percent of the show is in Spanish, the rest in English. For the first two seasons, the director and main star were Brazilians who had to learn Spanish, and we also added a Swede, Matias Varela, to the cast," she adds.
Audiences are getting more sophisticated and shows cross national borders with more ease than in the past. Subtitles aren't so scary after all (though Scandinavians always knew that anyway).
10. TIMES CHANGE, AND YOU SHOULD, TOO
Binge-watching TV series was a novel concept until DVD boxes came along, but we didn't start to call it that until about five years ago. "Binge watching" was the Collins English Dictionary's Word of the Year in 2015.
"It does change the way we produce things. We focus on the story, the narrative. A book sometimes has ten-page chapters, others are 25 pages long. Nobody gives you a book and tells you to read a chapter a week," says Zaba.
Finally, remember the famous words of the Academy Award winning screenwriter and author William Goldman – "Nobody knows anything."
"Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. It's always a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one," he wrote in his 1983 book Adventures in the Screen Trade.
Or, to put it another way: May the Force be with you.
Originally published in Scandinavian Traveler in October 2018
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I Need Articles is a burgeoning site for aspiring writers and writing pros alike. I've worked on INeedArticles off an on for several months, and while I've never made a big payday, the pay is regular if you can keep up and keep posting.
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Cons: There are slow times on the site where there are very few (if any) articles available, but this seems to be more infrequent as of late. Compared to other writing sites, the pay seems significantly lower, but for writers who can knock out several articles quickly, the lower pay can amount to a higher overall payday.
Although I no longer write actively for TextBroker, it was the first online writing site for extra cash that I ever heard of. The application process was intense and difficult, and all initial posts are monitored by staff for quality assurance. This turns out to be a blessing and a curse for writers interested in honing their skills, but is not necessarily user-friendly for writers new to online freelance work.
Pros: The feedback you get from the staff can be helpful in pointing out areas that can be improved in grammar, punctuation and spelling, but this can be taken overboard and a lot of the staff seem more like punctuation Nazis than helpful aids. Some of the available articles are well-paying, and I made almost $100 in my first week. Unfortunately, that kind of earning was not repeated after that, which encouraged me to look for other online options.
Cons: The application and quality assurance process was notoriously difficult for a burgeoning online writer, but some of the feedback I got was incredibly helpful and insightful on some of my writing habits. TextBroker also works on a star rating system, and writers who are on the lower levels have very few writing options to choose from, compared to the higher rated writers. While it is possible to move up to the higher levels after starting, this is notoriously hard to do with only a handful of articles to pick from.
HubPages has been my online home for interaction and posting my own ideas and meeting new friends - many of which have transcended hubpages and moved on to my normal life. Hubpages allows writers to write about any topic they choose and receive residual income on their own niche - or several niches. I often come to Hubpages with an idea in mind, start a hub and start writing, and some of my impromptu hubs have received the most traffic. It incorporates various ad programs to enable their writers to earn on several fronts at once, and it offers a mostly-positive community of support and encouragement among its writers.
Pros: Writers can write about whatever they'd like and earn residual income from their completed work. Writers can also track their visits, comments, feedback, earnings and more with a simple click of a button. While Hubpages is a writing site for writers, it also contains an active forum life for every interest known to man - and then some.
Cons: Hubpages is not a site that earns writers instant, weekly income. Writing on Hubs is more of an investment in residual payments over time. If you write hubs often, you're going to earn your $50 target for payout much quicker if you're focused on producing evergreen, lifelong, entertaining hubs. Writers also receive a score that can encourage them to produce more content, as well as interacting with other hubbers.
Not all writing sites are created equal, and like anything else on the internet, finding the format, the prices and the site for you is a matter of individual taste. Instead of focusing on one avenue and sticking with it, trying to make it work when it may not be for you, try out your options. Find a writing site (or two or three or more) that you like. While not all assignments may be up your alley, expanding your knowledge base and trying new things is one of the best ways to achieve success and productivity. For me, writing is a hobby that i have always enjoyed - especially when it means I get to learn new things about subject matter that I may not be as familiar with. The extra income is just a nice added bonus.
I'm signed up w/ BloggMutt but I have yet to submit an article - I just don't like the thought of writing something with the possibility of not getting paid for it. I do a lot of writing for WritersDomain and also Writer Access.
I wrote for Blogmutt and loved it. I was the preferred writer for sites from pets to tech to cigars. Most of my blogs earned at least four stars. When I was points away from level eight, where I would earn stock in the company, every one of my available blogs were rejected by an admin. Some of them had already been read by customers and rated 5 stars. Due to the number of rejections, I was banned from Blogmutt with no appeal. Blgmutt is a great site to write for, fo a while.
No worries - the hub got me back into IWriter anyway!
I will definitely have to add that in, I'm sorry I neglected to specify originally.
Blogmutt looked interesting, but is only for US writers....but you don't find that out until after you've given them your email etc.
Might help to add if they are worldwide or US only? But its only a suggestion.
Thanks for all your hard work in finding these sites, and sharing them with us.
Thanks, your work is much appreciated.
Thanks for the useful and informative hub. Well done!
Because creative Commons is the source from which I found them, and the original author is not shared. Creative Commons is a collection of pictures, etc, that are free to use and share.
@JMcFarland Hello. I have noticed you give credit to "creative commons" under pictures. Why do you give credit to them instead of original author who took the picture?
Thank you for the information. I'm always looking for new sites to check out. These are good bunch! Good Luck in your writing endeavors!
Except for Hubpages and iWriter the other sites all are for "Native Speakers" which kind of excludes a large chunk of the English speaking population online.
Very good hub:). Voted up and interesting. I would like to mention Elance as well. While I have not finished my profile yet, there seems like a lot of work available but like everything else there is a chance that you won't get paid and it's very competitive thank you for writing this hub. Have a great week.
What about allvoices? Have you had a chance to cheek that site out?
Wow, this is a very helpful article! Thanks for offering these additional ideas.
Thanks for this! Most of the sites I've found pay by the word, or offer cents for a 350 word post. These look much more promising!
I love writing on my own sad things r my personal things so what could i start writing....???
could u plx guide me..????
Thanks for an informative hub. Well worth checking these sites out as being retired, I now have more time on my hands for my writing.
Thank you for the useful info. i'm sure it will be helpful for lots of online writers. Just one precision. BlogMutt is for US residents only.
Thank you for all the info, I really do have to pluck up the courage to try some as for the first time in my life a have a little time after the webshop I worked for closed down!
Very informative hub. Thanks for the reviews and help us to find another way to get money online by writing. Voted up and useful!
Parrster - I love writing, too so I definitely understand. The money is a nice added benefit for me. I like developing my skills and learning things I may have not been exposed to before as well. Thank you very much for stopping by.
One day I may write online for the money. For now I'll write for the love of it ...money would be nice though. Great article, voted up, and congratulations on your Hubpot achievements, well deserved.
I've been pleased with the earning potential here at HubPages and I make a little bit of money, mostly from a single good Hub. My strengths aren't really well-suited for what works on HubPages, but at this point it is probably one of the best.
I have made nearly $1000 at Yahoo Contributor Network, but that was due to the good fortune of getting sports beats. Those are gone, like many of the good earning opportunities there.
Thanks for this article. The only site I have ever made money on was Associated Content which became Yahoo Voices. I am not really fond of their layout and since I was not not making much, I decided to write here because I love the way you can lay things out. I am going to look at the other sites.
Meisjunk - this article only scratched the surface. There are a lot more out there available, I just don't have the time to try all of them. Good luck in your search, and if you come across anymore, let me know.
I wish there were more options in the poll! I haven't tried any other sites, but that's simply because most of the sites I've found are ones where people post freelance opportunities, and then the writers have to bid for the job! I'm not doing this full-time, and I do not have the time to do all of that. So I just didn't vote in your poll. I have the interest, but I haven't found any other sites.
I'm definitely booking this article for referencing when I can take a look at more writing sites.
This is interesting. Some of the sites you've mentioned, I've never even heard of.
Interesting comparison of online writing sites. I've written only one article for BlogMutt and it was accepted and they paid immediately. It seemed like a lot of work for eight dollars between the research and writing. I like the opportunity to earn residual income here at HubPages. Congratulations on winning!
Great hub! I appreciate learning about these sites and will check a few out based on your recommendations. Voted up and sharing.
I love the name BlogMutt - great informative article and thank you so much for the information.
Thanks :-) it was a bit of a shock.
Congratulations on winning the hub pot challenge !
It was interesting to read your personal experience of these sites. Blogmutt is one that I'd not heard about before. Unfortunately it's only for US residents, so I can't try it out.
A useful article for anyone hoping to earn through online writing.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. muddling through dozens of potential sites can be overwhelming, and it's hard to know what to expect. I'm glad I was able to point to alternative sites, and thanks for the encouragement. Good luck everyone.
Good article, and I'm always glad to find some additional sites. Shared with my friends - good luck!
Excellent hub with a lot of sites I hadn't heard of before! Kudos! Planning to check them out!
Besides HP, I've heard only of Textbroker but heard it was a lot of work for little pay. I haven't heard of the other sites but they sound interesting. Thanks for the info! Pinning to my freelancing board.


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Salauddin Ahmed (born 1967 in Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a contemporary Bangladeshi architect. His projects included the Karim Residence in Bashundhara. He is the lead architect at Atelier Robin Architects that he founded in 2001.

Biography
Ahmed received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1992 from Portland State University, and an Architecture degree in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, he worked in the office of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, as well as the Urban Planning Department of the City of Portland, Oregon. Between 1999 and 2000, he worked for the firm Saiful Hoque Sthapati. In 2001, he founded his own architect firm, Atelier Robin Architects, based in Dhaka.

Style
Salauddin Ahmed described his work as an intent to grasp the vastness of architecture while remaining within the fundamentals of the discipline. He doesn't view architecture as a creative field, but rather as a technical one that requires creativity to produce solutions.

Notable works
 Karim Residence
 Cafe Mango

Awards
 ICE Today-Aqua Paints, for Non Residential design (other category); 2009
 Berger Award for Excellence in Architecture in the Residential category; 2011.
Institute of Architect Bangladesh Design Award in Residential Building category; 2012.

References

Bangladeshi architects
Living people
Modernist architects
21st-century Bangladeshi architects
1967 births

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May the Latest Ending Mark Another Beginning for Jamie Moyer
Posted on July 7, 2012 July 9, 2012 by Bob Socci
By Bob Socci
Late Thursday a lefthander who's fanned more than 3,000 batters in a near three-decade-long professional career took a third strike in his 50th summer. Jamie Moyer was released by the Toronto Blue Jays, just as he'd been in preceding weeks by both the Colorado Rockies and Baltimore Orioles.
Following a spring in which the 49 1/2-year-old marvel returned from reconstructive elbow surgery to become the oldest winning pitcher in major league history, Moyer again confronts baseball mortality. Ever since the early 1990s, when three different organizations let him go in a 17-month span, Moyer has routinely turned such supposed dead ends into mere detours.
Persevering with eight major league clubs, he's totaled 269 victories. Twenty-one of them came at the age of 40 for the 2003 Seattle Mariners. Five years later, as the National League's oldest player, he was a 16-game winner for a world champion; despite pitching primarily at Citizen's Bank Park, hitter-friendly home of his Philadelphia Phillies.
With the Rockies, whose own Coors Field is unforgiving in the thin air of altitude, Moyer started this latest comeback campaign reasonably well. Through April his ERA was 3.14. But by the end of May, it rose to 5.70. As the victim of more home runs (522) allowed than any other big-league predecessor, Moyer gave up 11 in his 53-plus innings with the Rockies.
Cut loose with a 2-5 record, Moyer quickly signed with the Orioles, who assigned him to Triple-A Norfolk. Three starts into his audition with the Tides, he was 1-1 with a 1.69 ERA. With no opportunity awaiting in Baltimore, Moyer opted out of another minor league start. At his request, the O's made Moyer a free agent for the seventh time. That's when the Jays picked him up for a brief audition with their Las Vegas affiliate. He went 1-1 with an 8.18 ERA.
At word of Toronto's decision, popular opinion in the blogosphere and Twitterverse asserted it was time for Moyer to finally call it quits.
Watching Moyer bid to make the Orioles, with whom he pitched from 1993-95, there was little reason to doubt his time with the Tides would mark yet another beginning. In his first outing, on an early-June Saturday in Buffalo, he had hitters spinning themselves into the ground, swinging at servings of soft tosses. The lone blemish on a five-inning line, featuring 52 strikes among 84 pitches at Moyer's customary 70-80 miles per hour, was a ground-ball single.
To Norfolk manager Ron Johnson, an initial first-hand look at the lefty resembled the numerous other times he'd seen Moyer on television.
"Everybody's timing was disrupted…you saw the front-foot swings…the big foul balls way foul…guys (getting) locked up on fastballs up, breaking balls down…a lot of swings at balls in the dirt," Johnson glowed. "I mean it was vintage Jamie Moyer.
"His stuff moves, it darts and it dips. Then you throw in the deception of his delivery. He kind of jumps at the hitters…It's very hard to sit here and talk about it. He is who he is. He's been in the major leagues a long time and he's had success. He is Jamie Moyer, and his stuff is Moyeresque."
Maybe not in relation to the All-Star of '03, a 20-game winner for the second time in three seasons. But certainly the stuff wasn't all that different from the source of 42 wins as a mid-40s Phillie from 2007-09. J.C. Romero saw Moyer then, and saw him again, while trying to stage his own comeback with Norfolk.
"When he was in his twenties somebody told him he couldn't pitch at (a high) level," said Romero, whose first of two victories as a reliever in the 2008 World Series completed a Game 3 start by Moyer. "Now he's 49 and still pitching at this level. He's admirable.
"To have that type of command and have that type of attacking mode the way he has through the years, you've got to be fearless out there."
Contradicting conventional thought overly influenced by the readings of radar guns, Moyer has long pitched on personal conviction. Where others doubted, he believed. With a faith made stronger by both work ethic and attention to detail.
"I can honestly say that I probably haven't had conviction with every pitch I've ever thrown in my career, but I think a lot of it comes from mechanics," Moyer explained. "If you're comfortable with your mechanics, that allows you to be more comfortable with your conviction in making your pitches.
"You always strive for perfection, knowing that perfection probably won't happen. But you try to create the most and the best consistency that you can create."
Introduced to pro ball as a 21-year old in 1984, Moyer evolved into a craftsman, modeling his approach in the mold of respected teammates. Early on he observed the pitching diligence of Rick Sutcliffe and Scott Sanderson, while noting the everyday professionalism of Andre Dawson. Infielder Vance Law showed Moyer the value of keeping a written history of at-bats, copiously categorizing every confrontation of pitcher and batter. Later influences as teammates included Nolan Ryan and Cal Ripken Jr.
"I broke into the game in the the Cubs organization and remember a lot of the things I was taught back then," said Moyer, sitting before his locker in a quiet clubhouse in Buffalo, three days after his Tides debut. "I feel like I was taught the right way to do things…how to act, how to respect the team across the field, how to respect your teammates, how to carry yourself as a professional.
"You learn to respect the good things that are happening, but knowing that you're going to go through struggles…You see these guys that are very successful on the field, but you also see the way they respect the game, respect their teammates and approach their jobs. When you see that done the right way, obviously it teaches you a lot of lessons."
In the same way, of course, Moyer has long been imparting those very lessons in younger teammates, atop and away from the mound. For much of that time, of far more importance, he's also proven one of sport's authentically great humanitarians; his off-the-field reach touching literally thousands of kids. Across this country, and beyond its borders. Even into the third world.
As parents of eight, including two daughters adopted from Guatemala, Jamie and wife Karen created The Moyer Foundation, which operates free youth camps for those impacted by both loss and addiction.
Camp Erin was started to help children and teens overcome their grief. With 40 sites, including every major league city, it helps youngsters ages 6-to-17 who've experienced the loss of loved ones. More recently, they founded Camp Mariposa to assist kids 9-to-12 who are living with an addict. The Moyers hope to grow the camps, seeking to fund them long enough to eventually become self-sustainable.
In both outreach efforts, the more Jamie's pitched, the longer he's extended his career, the more good he and Karen have been able to do.
"It's allowed us to stay on that platform of being an athlete and wife," says Moyer, whose family 'vacations' often involve charity work in places like the Guatemala City Dump, where an entire impoverished subculture exists. "Being on that platform we feel like we should take advantage of it and use it in a positive way, and show people that there's many less fortunate people in our country and in our world.
"These people in a lot of cases, especially these kids, children in distress, they don't really ask to be in these situations. What we're trying to do with both (camps) is teach kids how to learn and grow from the situations they're in, that they didn't ask to be in. Give them skills, give them coping skills."
Camp Erin provides counseling, Moyer explains, "to teach these kids to remember their loved ones in a positive way, but give them skills to move forward in their life and not fall between the cracks." The mission of Camp Mariposa is to break cycles. Or, as Moyer says, "getting (kids) to understand that they don't have to follow the footsteps of the people living under the same roof."
It all amounts to why we should all be rooting for at least one more team to offer at least one more chance for Moyer. Especially if it means one more dollar to help one more kid.
Of course, society will always need more good samaritans. And baseball too will always need more good citizens who give back to a game that's given them so much.
If we've seen the last of Moyer out of the wind-up or from the stretch, his playing career — right up to its final days — will be best remembered for moments like two recent scenes in a minor league setting.
On his first Tuesday as a Norfolk Tide, three days after facing Buffalo, the man with a quarter-century of experience in the big leagues held court with his newest of teammates. Shortly after six o'clock, as storm clouds gathered in Western New York and a stadium announcer warned of an impending downpour, Jamie Moyer remained in the bullpen. Toeing the rubber, he gestured as if to reinforce the points he was making. Intently listening alongside were veteran coach Mike Griffin and Chris Tillman, a 24-year-old prospect still trying to pitch to his major league potential.
Though everyone else in uniform was headed for cover, they appeared impervious to the darkening sky and intensifying wind. Only interference by the grounds crew, in need of covering the bullpen mounds, finally adjourned Moyer's discourse.
About an hour later the heavy rain had come and gone, when the first figure, of thin frame and average height, re-emerged from the third-base dugout.
Ascending the steps, he tucked a water bottle into the right pocket of his black windbreaker, and began walking the warning track toward the left-field corner. A third of the way there, he stopped to oblige a handful of autograph seekers.
If not for the lines marking his years — like the creases in his forehead or the crow's feet of his eyes — he easily could have been mistaken for someone less than half his age. His enthusiasm was that of a kid just up from the low minors, beating all the others out of the clubhouse. They stayed inside, perhaps to play one last hand of a rain-delay card game, or one more song from an iPod.
Writing his name with a pen in his right hand, opposite the left hand that had delivered nearly 60,000 major league pitches, once more Jamie Moyer was showing a sign of respect for the game and its the fans — as the last to leave and first to arrive.
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Carlo Ferrari (1813–1871), called il Ferrarin, was an Italian painter.

Biography
He was born in Verona and studied sporadically at the Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts there, while practising as a copyist and restorer in the studio of the fresco painter Pietro Nanin.

Ferrari made his debut at the 1837 exhibition at the Verona Academy with a series of views of the city enlivened by genre episodes inspired by Flemish painting. These would become typical subjects in the most successful part of his repertoire.

During the 1840s he received increasing public and critical acclaim, which coincided with his participating more frequently in exhibitions, such as the one at the Academy in Venice in 1839 and at the Brescia Atheneum in 1840 and the Esposizione di Belle Arti at the Brera Academy in Milan in 1844, and also established himself as one of the leading Veronese painters during the Restoration period. He received important commissions from the local nobility and the Austrian officers based in Verona thanks to his being in favour with Field Marshal Radetzky, for whom his views of the Venetian Lagoon inspired by the 18th-century veduta model were mainly destined. The artist's international fame and market appeal reached their height around 1851, following Emperor Franz Josef's visit to his studio which guaranteed him an international clientele of the highest order.

During his late period he was highly active as a painter and engraver, specialising in the interpretation of Renaissance works, and he also became a connoisseur by working closely with the Veronese collector Cesare Bernasconi. Ferrari died in Verona in 1871.

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 Elena Lissoni, Carlo Ferrari, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

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YouTube leanback creates a queue for you based on your preferences. It also pulls in videos your friends have shared on facebook, for example. However, users spend a lot of their online video minutes outside of YouTube – Hulu, CBS, BBC, MTV etc. One stat from Comscore video metrics suggests about 22% of online video minutes is spent on YouTube, 26% on sites #2 to #25 and the remaining 52mins on the long tail. It is important thus to give the user this variety but with a similar leanback interface.
Another statistic from TubeMogul suggests that over 48% of videos are discovered through social media –blogs, social networks, social bookmarking sites etc. implying that users are stumbling across videos from several sources. The ability to bring all these sources to a single queue and filter out content that may not be relevant is going to be the next big challenge in online video.
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Whether it's the TV, notebook, tablet or the handset, usage scenarios & user interfaces will vary but the need for relevancy will be persistent across all these devices.
YouTube leanback is a good start but it does have some ways to go become compelling.


Discovery 72, Pierre Moran 24: Discovery pins: 90: Tyler Lizzi; 110: Reid Matz; 115: Tyler Reinoehl; 120: Dalton Stroupe; 125: Aaron Hunter; 130: Graham Marshall. LAVILLE TOURNEY Discovery finished second at "King of the Mats" tourney Team scores: Discovery 95, Warsaw-Lakeview 27; Discovery 91, Plymouth-Lincoln 15; Discovery 82, Glenn-Urey 15; Discovery 120, Tipp. Valley 6; Grissom 58, Discovery 38 Discovery champions: 70: Taylor Hart 4-1; 75: Sarah Hildebrandt 5-0; 85: Nathan Barbott 4-1; 95: Chandler Miller 5-0; 100: Ryan Szklarek 5-0; 105: Chris Merrill 4-1; 115: Tyler Reinoehl 5-0; 120: Dalton Stroupe 4-1; 125: Aaron Hunter 4-1; 135: Ryan Darr 5-0; 152: Zach Storms 5-0; 160: Jared Olashuk 4-1. Penn-Discovery is 11-1 (5-0) WEST NOBLE SUPER 6 Team Scores: Goshen 112, Southern Wells 7; Goshen 101, West Noble 11; Goshen 75, New Haven 27; Goshen 91, South Adams 24; Concord 79-30. Goshen Champions: 85: Austin Maynard; 95: Ryan Reynolds; 110: Travis Pickard; 120: Trey Rogers; 125: Troy Pickard; 130: Ryan Ntende; 135: Sebastian Heintzelman; 145: Michael Ntende; 152: Brandon Dillenbeck; 171: Trevor Shetler. Record: Goshen 7-0.
JIMTOWN Munster Folkstyle tourney champs Peewee 40: Dylan Thompson; Midget 65: Jay Franko; Midget 95: Matthew Fragale. Leo Folkstyle Tourney champs Schoolboy 185: Zach Burke.


As disciples of Jesus Christ we are called to be in mission and ministry to our local community as well as the world. These are some of the ways we take care of each other.
MCUMC is a Stephen Ministry church. This program teaches laypersons to provide one-on-one care for individuals facing a life crisis.
Tend My Sheep Haiti is an agricultural ministry working to develop a farm to grow vegetables, fruit, and meat to support local communities and to employ local workers to provide for their families.
The FELT (Feeding Empty Little Tummies) program works with a local elementary school to provide weekend food for children in need.
Karina provides emotional relief utilizing expressive arts and pre-vocational training for special gifted youth and adults.
United Churches Assistance Network (UCAN) is an emergency assistance cooperative organization designed by member-churches to offer financial and referral help to those in need in our local community.
Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County, Inc. provides essential and life-saving services to family members experiencing conflict and family violence.
Riverside Treatment Services provides comprehensive care for individuals struggling with debilitating opioid use disorders through counseling, medication, medical consultation, and referral services.
BCCW's mission is to share the love of Christ by improving the homes of and providing assistance for some limited income families in Baltimore County, Maryland.
The Committee on Native American Ministry (CONAM) supports Native American ministry and outreach, promotes awareness of the Native American community residing within the bounds of our annual conference and develops leadership among the Native community.
Araminta Freedom Initiative's mission is to awaken, equip, and mobilize the Church and community in Maryland to end human trafficking through education, prevention strategies, and restorative survivor services.
Planet Aid's mission is to inform, mobilize, and inspire individuals and communities to work together to bring about worldwide environmental and social progress by collecting and recycling textiles to protect the environment, reduce waste, and increase the efficient use of vital resources.


Brett Eldredge found a new, painful way to play basketball. He knows (like we all do) that defense wins championships, but he forgot to get his hands up. Rookie mistake. So when the ball came flying his way, he used is face to protect the net.
No, this isn't soccer. Yes, the ball is very hard. we don't recommend this kind of play, but we applaud his hustle.
Wanna go one on one?!


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Memoirs Bare Trauma of Childhood Poverty, Abuse
March 11, 2022 The Hawk Leave a comment
By Mrs. McHugh
HHS Librarian
Rex Ogle's memoirs may be deceiving. With cartoonish covers and less than 200 pages each, the books might seem easy or meant for younger readers. But the subjects he deals with – extreme poverty, homelessness and physical abuse – are for mature audiences. While his younger school self narrates the stories, readers in high school or older may be best equipped to handle the content. This isn't meant to warn anyone off. It's just to make clear that what may look like a short or easy book from the outside in fact deals with some pretty heavy stuff.
In Free Lunch, Rex struggles to fit in at the start of sixth grade. With his mother and stepfather unemployed and prone to fits of violence, Rex is desperate to hide signs of their poverty: he can't sign up for football because there's no medical insurance if he gets hurt; he sleeps on the floor in a bedroom with no furniture; he often skips breakfast so his younger brother can eat; he wears threadbare clothes and sometimes the same outfit two days in a row. Rex doesn't understand why his parents can't provide. By telling the story from his younger point of view, Ogle exposes not just the experience of poverty that is all too common in this country. He also reveals the confusion and anger of a child whose adults are unable to care for him.
Punching Bag follows Rex into high school, focusing on the physical and emotional abuse that were paired with his family's poverty. Since he was little, Rex's mom has blamed him for the death of his stillborn sister, although his stepfather's violence is really to blame. While his parents wage war against him and with each other, in scenes often brutal to read, Rex struggles with the darkness rising inside him. Does he give in, resigning himself to repeat the cycle in his future relationships? Or does he break ties with his toxic parents? He reveals the answer in an afterword that provides hope and resources for others suffering from violence.
These books are similar to the series by Dave Pelzer, which begins with A Child Called It: difficult topics, honest and moving writing, incredible stories of resilience. Reading these types of books may be heart-wrenching, but they can also build compassion for others and understanding of the issues that many people face, often invisibly, in our communities.
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I have just returned from an incredible two week trip to Iceland in winter, exploring both the north and south of the island, and being joined latterly by some clients for a week-long photographic workshop. A lot was seen and photographed. From the smooth shapes and ripples across melting icebergs and snow-swept black volcanic sand to the jagged fringes of frozen waterfalls and lava fields dusted in snow, there were a lot of opportunities for interesting compositions. We even saw wildlife every day in the shape of Orca (killer whales), seals, eagles, ptarmigans and a lot of evidence of arctic foxes – Iceland's only native land mammal, though we never actually saw one – I'm sure if we were better prepared we could have come back with some images that did them justice too!
The conditions certainly played their part in the adventure as we endured bitingly cold temperatures and ferocious winds – which only served to pull the temperatures further thanks to the windchill factor, estimates range from -25C to -30C! Drifts of snow, pushed all the way from fresh falls on mountains and glaciers some miles away, built up at a number of locations we visited making maneuvering interesting. We encountered blinding dust storms crossing the open plains of glacial moraine as strong winds whipped along at over 70kmh, blocking out almost all the light and obscuring anything more than a few metres ahead. Certainly tested the nerves but we got through it fine. After a number of visits to Iceland I have seen firsthand how it undergoes dramatic changes in such short periods of time thanks to the power of the weather conditions it experiences; in one particular location it dawned on us an entire beach had been washed away leaving large exposed rocks some 3 metres or more below the sand level of the beach I walked across only last October. Quite a shocking yet equally fascinating discovery.
An Icelandic Dust Storm tears across the highway obscuring the way ahead.
Despite the occasional adverse conditions and surprise discoveries almost every location played up to and beyond expectations, vast icebergs awaited in the famed lagoon, slowly bobbing about with the rise and fall of the tides. The black volcanic beach neighbouring the lagoon was laden with the jewel-like deposits of ice – large and small – leaving a lot to explore and investigate. We saw the magical northern lights on a number of occasions, it's ethereal glow stunning the group with every twist and turn they made being particularly bright this time around. By the last day after many miles traveled, several happy clients remained at the end of it, all present and correct (well, at least the same number we counted in, were counted out at the end!). I am very much looking forwards to returning to that incredible country and see more of it, I still feel I have barely begun to scratch the surface – there is a tentative plan to go in summer…watch this space!
I have been making updates to my photography facebook page including some images when connection allowed whilst out there, for a day-by-day report please head there. Once I have had a chance to go through the images I will upload them.
Denise, thanks for getting in touch. Iceland is an incredible place with so much going on, it's a shame you didn't get to see the northern lights when you went in December…but they can be quite fickle, which does make it all the more impressive when they do appear. We are of course at the mercy of the weather – any chance of a cloudy night and you might as well forget heading out and just enjoy propping up the bar! All the best to Oli and his progress on Mariquita with the crew!
Having read your blog, I think my resolve to go there in the winters is stronger. I hear that Autumn this year may just be the best time to see the Lights. Fingers crossed I can make it.
By the way, did I mention, stunning photos!
After reading this I feel I have just relived the experience. What an amazing time we all had. Don't forget I am interested if you do a workshop in Norway. Give it some thought perhaps?


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Prayer 'is what will save Nicaragua,' bishop says
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, walks with other pilgrims to the Shrine of the Divine Child in July 2022. | Credit: Manuel Obando and Diocese Media
By CNA Staff
Denver Newsroom, Jul 20, 2022 / 15:43 pm
During a recent pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Divine Child in the Diocese of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Bishop Rolando Álvarez said that prayer "is what will save Nicaragua" and called for a "crusade" in the coming months.
The country has been embroiled in a political and economic crisis since 2018, when demonstrations broke out and then were put down by police and paramilitaries, resulting in more than 400 deaths.
"On behalf of all my brother priests of our blessed and beloved Diocese of Matagalpa, I want to call each and every one of you to (join in) a crusade of prayer and adoration for our Church, our priests, and our beloved Nicaragua," the prelate said July 17 during the pilgrimage's closing Mass.
Álvarez explained that the crusade will consist of fasting during the day on the first Friday of each month, which is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He also requested that on the coming feast days of the Virgin Mary the Holy Rosary be prayed at 5:30 a.m. and the faithful practice the devotion of praying a thousand Hail Marys.
Among other Marian celebrations, the bishop mentioned the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Aug. 15), the Nativity of Mary (Sept. 8), the feast of Our Lady of Mercy (Sept. 24), the feast of the Virgin of the Miraculous Medal (Nov. 27), and the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8).
The throng of pilgrims began their journey in the early hours of the morning after attending Mass at St. Peter's Cathedral.
The Diocese of Matagalpa said on Facebook that the pilgrims walked 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) to the Shrine of the Divine Child, located in Fuente Pura, and that the pilgrimage lasted more than three hours.
The event, which took place after two years of coronavirus pandemic restrictions, was heavily attended by adults, families, children, and young people from various parts of the country.
The pilgrims came to thank the Divine Child for favors received and to ask for his help.
The next pilgrimage is scheduled for July 16, 2023.
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
Prayer,
Diocese of Matagalpa,
Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos,
Church in Nicaragua,
Shrine of the Divine Child
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Anyone received a Scarlet to Epic Dragon Upgrade yet? Waiting on word for a while, and wanted to see if any are rolling out yet?
"Unfortunately we do not have an update as to when the SCARLET to EPIC DRAGON upgrade will begin.
As soon as I have more information I will provide you with an update. My apologies I could not be of more help at this time.
is this in reference to scarlet-X to epic dragon or scarlet dragon to epic dragon?
There is no Scarlet X Dragon to EPIC Dragon I do believe.
if you're going from scarlet to epic dragon, your best bet to get epic dragon quicker is to talk to your rep to go: scarlet to epic to epic dragon as red is filling epic to epic dragon orders before scarlet to epic dragon orders.
i did scarlet to epic and now time to upgrade dragon in this month..
Anyone know when the Scarlet to Scarlet Dragon path will start?
I got a similar reply too, Alessandro.
Vincent, I ordered the Scarlet-X to Epic Dragon upgrade the day it went up, so over a year ago now. Didn't want to go to Epic, then to Epic Dragon since my Scarlet-X gets quite a bit of work, wanted to minimise the downtime.
i did the same (ordered scarlet to epic dragon on april 11th 2013), then spoke to rep a few weeks ago about it and they said it be faster to goto epic first. i'll let you know how quick the turn around is now as i received my epic recently.
SCARLET M-X to SCARLET DRAGON upgrade orders will begin to be processed before SCARLET M-X to EPIC DRAGON orders. There is no SCARLET DRAGON to EPIC DRAGON option at this time.
NOTE: As others have said, path of SCARLET M-X to EPIC M-X to EPIC DRAGON is there, if you want to go that route.
No ETA's to publish at this time.
As others have said... Going Scarlet to Epic and then Epic to Dragon would be the way to get yours sooner, it's what I and many others around here did and despite ordering late in the game (early May 2014, a day or so after I got my Epic from the Scarlet trade in), and I got mine back Dragonized last week.
So...any cost difference in upgrading from Scarlet MX to Epic MX to Epic Dragon rather than the route I've gone?
And what's the process of setting this up, since, well, I'd like my camera sooner rather than later.
I honestly didn't expect that Scarlet Dragon upgrades would jump the queue over Scarlet MX to Epic Dragon? Especially considering the upgrade is basically just a new order, since there's no physical sensor upgrade to the Scarlet in upgrading to the Epic Dragon, and it's being completely replaced with an Epic Dragon.
I would've expected this to be the quickest option, since it doesn't include the addition of receiving and sending back an Epic.
New Epic Dragons are not for order yet and no price has been announced for off the shelf Dragon-X. So, upgrades to Dragons which require replacing parts take precedence. Scarlet to Epic is a good route because you could have been using it and making some money before sending it in for Dragon upgrade. They cost the same so it was a no brainer.
Just changed my order with my Bomb Squad rep.
Does anyone know how long it takes to do the SCARLET M-X to EPIC M-X to EPIC DRAGON UPGRADE at the moment didn't have the answer yet from my rep.
last I was told depends on stock and how long it takes to go over your old camera at service check.
my rep said almost 2 weeks tops.
I still didn't get how this process work and why it would most likely take few months to go from Scarlet to EPIC X DRAGON but apparently only weeks for SCARLET M-X to EPIC M-X to EPIC DRAGON UPGRADE... if someone have spare time thank you in advance.
Thanks Brian, let's see now if tomorrow i can get the same sound from my rep. about the timing to get my hands on a DRAGON.


A distraught mother has said she fears her young family will be split up as her being granted citizenship has been delayed.
Megan Crowley (37) claims that the Department of Justice temporarily lost her original application for Irish citizenship when she filed it fifteen months ago, and in that time her UK residency permit lapsed.
While she was approved for citizenship in December, it's not legally binding until she attends a citizenship ceremony, something she can't do until she has a new UK residency permit - which may take up to 18 months.
To make matters worse Megan's father is seriously unwell in the US and if she wants to visit him she will need to get her passport back, which will void her residency permit application and she won't be allowed to return to Ireland.
She spoke about her ordeal to Independent.ie and said that she is devastated at the thought of splitting up her family, who are based in Belfast.
She said that she moved here almost ten years ago after meeting her now husband Richard in Boston, they settled in Belfast so he could be with his two children from a previous relationship, they have since gone on to have two daughters - Anna (11) and Mary (9).
Megan said: "My children are upset, my husband is upset, I haven't been able to eat or sleep. My youngest is just constantly crying.
"My husband and I love each other, we have never lived apart from each other. We met 14 years ago in Boston and we found out we are both from the same small town in Limerick, Cappamore.
"We love our children, our son is starting uni next year, our daughter Anna is starting secondary school, our youngest Mary is getting a big award at the Belfast School of Music on Saturday.
"We're a law abiding, normal, living family. We just want to stay together. It's a very easy thing for Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan to step in and help us. We are an Irish family."
She continued to say how her nightmare started.
Megan said: "I sent in my application 15 months ago, I had in sent recorded delivery.
"They said they would return my passport in four weeks, but after eight weeks I had no response.
"So I wrote to them and asked them what was happening, they then said they would look into I and then asked for a tracking number, so I knew they had lost it, they found the application in May 2017 and began processing it then.
"Most applications are finished in six months, all my friends who had no Irish family were getting approval and mine had not come.
"So I contacted the office in November and was ignored. My UK residence permit was expiring in December and I didn't have £2400 to pay that, so I asked Minister Flanagan to look into why my case was taking so long and to step in to get my approval, two days before Christmas I got approval but it's not legally binding until I go to a citizenship ceremony."
She continued to say that she has applied for her new UK residency permit but has been told it could take up to eighteen months to arrive and she isn't allowed to attend a citizenship ceremony without one.
"I don't have a UK permit now but it seems unfair that if they hadn't lost my application for months I would still have a valid card, unfortunately it expired in that time."
She also isn't eligible for a spousal visa as Richard, who works as a decorator, falls below the income requirements.
There was a citizenship ceremony last month and Megan was dismayed not to be invited.
"When May came around two weeks before the ceremony, I wrote asking where my invitation was.
"Instead of an invite, they sent me a request for my UK residence card, which I had already told Minister Flanagan's office in December would not be issued for over a year.
"I wrote to them saying I did not have that, as it takes a very long time but reminding them that I was still legal as my application is pending and that I previously provided them with 9 years and 7 months of continuous legal residence in Ireland," she said.
Megan's father is sick in the US and she is torn about whether she should go visit him as she would not be able to come back to Ireland.
"My dad is really unwell, his heart has stopped six times already this year but if I want my passport back I would have to pull my application and I wouldn't be allowed back in.
"I really don't know what to do and I'm thinking should I just wait and see how things go for him.
"My husband also wouldn't be allowed into the US as he has a ten year ban for overstaying his visa.
"Where would my kids live, they're in school here, their lives are here.
"I don't want to miss anything, I don't want to leave them."
A spokesman for the Department of Justice told Independent.ie: "The Department of Justice and Equality does not generally comment on individual cases but irrespective of the jurisdiction from which an applicant applies, the Minister cannot consider such an application unless the appropriate permission to remain is in force and we have evidence of same."